I was about 5 miles away from the tornado’s destruction in the central part of the city. I had been called in to substitute teach at Elephant’s Fork Elementary (which sustained damaged and overturned mobile classroom units), but was feeling sick that morning—more than a coincidence? I know that the students at the city schools were on lock-down, and it took people like my dad 3 hours to get home for about a 10-mile drive. I remember the entire city was under curfew, and of course there was a media frenzy, and only residents could travel through the storm-ravaged areas, in an effort to prevent looting, which even kept away curious amateur photographers and tornado enthusiasts.
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